[DF] Appropriate Riddles

[Flyndaran]

Originally Posted by Bruno

Sand only works for those with yellow-brown sand. Red sand and black sand dominate different parts of the world.
Around here, we don't really have sand - except what comes in bags from somewhere else.

Hollywood probably effects most people's impressions of objects. California coasts have loads of the yellow sand, and I don't remember ever seeing a yellow intact chicken egg.
Basic dirt probably conjures up the appropriate dark reddish brown implied. But I'm sure your land of perpetual ice and igloo doesn't get to see much of that color either. ;)
That's really the problem with metaphor in general. It assumes similar life experiences and cultural/linguistic connections.